Metrics That Matter: How To Measure What Actually Drives Product Success
Every product organization is drowning in data. Sprint velocity, story points completed, lines of code written, deployment frequency – the
Software Development Resources
The intersection of engineering and business value to create, design, deploy, and support software. Gain insights into how transformative approaches to software development can ensure reliability and reduce time to market.
The Ignored Business Requirements That Are Sabotaging Your Product Roadmap
Focusing exclusively on developing new features might seem like the fastest way to achieve your product goals, but by ignoring
What I Learned From LeetCode
LeetCode is an online coding site designed to challenge its users with algorithmic programming tasks commonly associated with the interviewing
Parameter Store and Secret Manager Integration with Spring Boot
We need to securely store and share sensitive credentials, passwords, and configuration information separately from our source code in Parameter
Proper Pagination with GraphQL
GraphQL has many advantages over REST interfaces, such as the ability to request specific fields, with relationships, and get only
Start A New TypeScript Project Fast!
The AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) and projen, which it’s built on, can save you so much time during project
Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Technology Survey
Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been grabbing a lot of headlines lately. I have been keeping
Angular Children Routing with Deep Linking
On a recent Angular migration project, I had to prototype a solution that would display the object details and relationship
Tier-ing It Up with Ehcache
code { background-color: #eee; font-style: oblique;} Ehcache is a Java, open-source cache solution maintained by Software AG. It is
JetBrains IntelliJ Keymaps – 5 of My Favorite Shortcuts
One of the small joys of being a professional of a trade, yes software engineering is a trade, is developing/learning
What’s the Purpose of a Minimum Viable Product?
Software product development is a design hypothesis testing exercise (as we pointed out in our post on the iterative process).
Custom Code Folds: Know When to Fold’em
Organization is the hallmark of any good developer and nothing makes organization more difficult than a long file. I’ve often
Why you should use GraphQL
GraphQL was created in 2012 and open-sourced by Facebook in 2015 to relieve issues with the interfaces of the time, particularly for mobile devices with limited or flaky internet connections.
Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, Part 3
In the first post of this series, we explained why you absolutely need to use jsonb columns in the PostgreSQL tables right now, and mildly chided you if you aren’t already.
Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, part 2
In Part 1 we explained why you absolutely need JSONb columns in your PostgreSQL tables, and how they simplify the
Managing Complex Data with JSON in PostgreSQL, Part 1
Are you looking at your stale, flat relational database and thinking: “It’s so rigid and lifeless!” Do you need polymorphism?
TypeScript to Make JavaScript Development Better and Faster
On a recent project involving AWS Lambda and AWS CDK, I made the decision to write the Lambdas in TypeScript
Testing Angular 10 Interceptors with Spectator and Jest
There are many reasons to switch from Karma and Jasmine to Jest when Testing Angular: Jest runs faster than Karma
Angular Migration and the Strangler Fig
If your organization developed an application using the framework formerly known as Angular, now retroactively rebranded as AngularJS, you probably know that all that hard work and capital you put in now is bolted firmly to a sinking ship.
4 Ways to Learn Object-Oriented Design
Looking back over 2019 I realized I’ve had the privilege to work on a diverse set of software projects: Architecting
Finding Diacritics in a Postgres Table
Recently I had the task to find all the Diacritics in a database table. I had to find an easy